Christmas 2025!

[NostradamusTheSeer]

Now I'm trying to go through one christmas movie/special a night....Just watched the Star Wars holiday special tonight.

Is that just the cutesy fun family ones, or are we counting the horror holiday movies and specials too?  Perhaps I should do a special post or blog on a few of my favorites there.  Because, let's face it, about two, two-and-a-half weeks in I start to notice how much got-dang alike these films are after awhile. They start to bleed together. Christy Carlson Romano , I love you, doll, believe me, but you've done, like three Hallmark Christmas movies in as many years. I worry you may burn out on the holly-jollies. I think I've talked before about hearing the same song in several different holiday offerings in a row.  Yes; here it is.  I miss the Christmas cartoon specials we used to have when I was young. For example, anyone remember the California Raisins?

I still sing this old hymn this way after close to forty years, thanks to those big plump purple musical fruits.

[Soda]

^ Lol! The California Raisins?  No, I don't remember that.

I watched the old Frosty the Snowman.  The movie with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, the stop motion one.  I also watched the animated Grinch movie and the SNow-mizer/Heat-miser movies!  Those are key Christmas movies of my childhood.

[Anyponedrawn]

I swear it seems like we just welcomed 2025.  And now we are about to close the year down again.  Time is flying guys!

Yep, in less than a month we will be in 2026.

[NostradamusTheSeer]

I watched the old Frosty the Snowman.  The movie with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer... the animated Grinch movie and the Snow-mizer/Heat-miser movies!  Those are key Christmas movies of my childhood.

You have wonderful taste, doll.  I wouldn't mind cuddling up with a pretty little thing like you some chill dark night to binge-watching a few shows from each of our lists.         


Here's another obscure animated treat from right around that period, called The Raccoons Christmas Special.

I've just discovered this series quite recently.  It must not have aired on any of the American TV stations I grew up watching.  Maybe they're the Canuck cousins of the Shirt Tales...?       Another favorite show from my youth that's probably a bit before your time, my dear....

[TheBeesSneeze]

Canadian animation used to be better, and uniquely strange.   ^ The Raccoons is an example of that.  It's weird that theme song of their's hard dark undertones to it.

[NostradamusTheSeer]

Hm, yes--I remember thinking, upon hearing the closing credits theme, it's a very odd choice for a children's animated series with prosocial undertones.

The lyrics about "passion in your eyes","desperate love", and "we are free" feel like they'd be better suited to a romantic comedy...or a series of a more--erhm--adult nature.       

Plus, that's pretty quality animation for the time--really holds up well.  Looks as if they had a pretty decent-sized production budget, compared to many of the smaller Canadian houses coming up in the seventies and eighties.

[Silverwing]

Everything about the Raccoons was strange.  It had very big and obvious political messages and they somehow got some pop stars to make music for them.  It's a really weird thing.

[NostradamusTheSeer]

Oh, I dunno.  Cyndi Lauper, I was surprised to learn, sang the theme to Pee-Wee's Playhouse-- which has one awesome Christmas special, too, bee-tee-dubs.  I guess it depends a lot on if these groups were already big then or achieved their success some years later on.

So besides the TV shows, the tradition I like most is the annual Christmas parade.    The ones they have in the town I've moved to, sadly, aren't quite as big or festive as the ones I grew up with back home--to start with, they're held at ten a.m. on Saturday rather than Friday at night.  Boo.   Secondly, no horses.  It simply isn't the same without horses.        The real fun part of watching these majestic beasts go by is seeing at which point on the route one of them drops a deuce... then, seeing, A. if it's still lying there on Main Street come Sunday morning, and trying to guess how long it's going to remain there , B. how long it takes before a car hits it and leaves a tire-track down the center, and C. how long before it dries up and turns white.       For the record, a good-sized horse turd takes about two and a half weeks to fully turn to dust and blow away on the breeze.

[Soda]

I love Christmas parades.  The towns and cities around me are afraid to say Christmas, so they say words like "festive parade" "winter parade" "winter lights show" and dumb stuff like that.

[Blurr]

One of my favorite memories from childhood christmas's, movies as gifts.

It means practically nothing anymore but I miss the days when DVDs and BluRays were under the tree or in stockings. I loved opening up something and seeing it was an awesome movie.

[Anyponedrawn]

I miss physical media in general.  I remember VHS's and DVD's.  I miss seeing that stuff.  Now we own nothing and once it's gone, it's gone.

[NostradamusTheSeer]

On the other hand, it's easier to carry media in "the cloud" than pack and lug your records, VCR tapes, CD's, and DVD's whenever you move.  So this Christmas, give your loved one a subscription to Legacybox--the premier content-digitizing firm in the business. Their all-in-one mailing kit makes it super easy to digitize your videotapes and photos. They're an industry leader in preserving your most cherished memories.

(No, I'm not getting paid to say this.  Wish I was.  I'm a mixtape maker from way back--got lots of cool stuff on audiocassette. Back during the Clinton/Bush The Elder/Perot debates I taped some comedy bits off the radio that are now super-rare. This was over thirty years ago, when a white guy could mock a black political figure's voice with impunity.)

[Anyponedrawn]

We are getting within sniffing territory of Christmas, lol!

I hate "the cloud."  There is no ownership.  No manuals or neat things to look at.  It's so sterile.

I have used Legacy Box before.  It was great.  I have our family videos all digitized.

[MasterXtreme]

We are coming on the 12 days of Christmas.

[Sniffles]

12 days!  Oh my goodness.  Time is flying.